"Uncertainty "
Caption: Children from Gabura a climate prone island playing cricket in a barren field. Frequency and extent hazards like cyclones, storm surges, droughts sea level rises put 63 million children in so

"Underwater Surfer"
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and there certainly is a story behind this one. To get to this position I took a 40-minute boat ride from the main island of Nadi to an outer reef in the middle of nowhere. One thing I DON"T like doing is leaping from a perfectly safe boat to swim across a deep, black channel, to get to the reef. With every stroke, all I hear is the Theme From Jaws, which inspires images of tiger sharks swimming up at me at Mach One. But I made it from the imagined danger of the channel to the real danger of the reef - swimming under open ocean swells thundering on a shallow reef. Dangerous but beautiful, and I did a lot of swimming, and dodged a lot of bombs and took a lot of photos and used a great deal of card space to come up with this one image. The next day I was riding on the back of a Personal Watercraft taking photos, when the driver zoomed into the danger zone to rescue a surfer who had wiped out bad. We got caught up in the turmoil and I fell and drowned several thousand dollars worth of 21st Century digital photographic equipment. So, a lot of trouble and strife goes into taking photos like this, and I want to thank you for your appreciation and respect.

"The Loneliness of Juliet"
The moment Juliet learns that Romeo killed her cousin, making their love story impossible. She's feeling alone and far from the one she loves.
Scene from Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo. Dancer: Anja Behrend. Choregrapher: Jean-Christophe Maillot.

Gregg Newton
USA

Nominee

"Framed"
Dany Torres of Spain does a backflip during the Red Bull X-Fighters World Series International Freestyle Motocross event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In the background is Corcovado mountain with its fam